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The Provisional IRA emerged from the split in the Irish Republican army in 1969-1970 out of the faction which supported the traditional republican commitment to parliamentary abstentionism. Its political counterpart was initially known as Provisional Sinn Féin.[1] Sean McStiofain was the Provisionals' first chief of staff.[2]